Using Kaggle Datasets in Google Colab

Step-by-step —

1. Create an API key in Kaggle.

   To do this, go to kaggle.com/ and open your user settings page.
   

2. Next, scroll down to the API access section and click generate
   to download an API key.
   
   This will download a file called kaggle.json to your computer.
   You’ll use this file in Colab to access Kaggle datasets and
   competitions.

3. Navigate to https://colab.research.google.com/.

4. Upload your kaggle.json file using the following snippet in
   a code cell:

   from google.colab import files
files.upload()


5. Install the kaggle API using !pip install -q kaggle

6. Move the kaggle.json file into ~/.kaggle, which is where the
   API client expects your token to be located:

   !mkdir -p ~/.kaggle
!cp kaggle.json ~/.kaggle/

7. Now you can access datasets using the client, e.g., !kaggle datasets list.

Here’s a complete example notebook of the Colab portion of this process:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1DofKEdQYaXmDWBzuResXWWvxhLgDeVyl

This example shows uploading the kaggle.json file, the Kaggle API client, and using the Kaggle client to download a dataset.